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Polygon's marathon Xbox One live stream

"Maybe you should have some compassion for humanity, you crazy, racist motorcycle. And that ladies and gentlemen is the Xbox One." - Nilay Patel, in the best out-of-context quote of day.
 
It's amazing how the two features I, and most other gamers care about the least (voice commands and kinect stuff), are the two things that seem completely borked. This system is probably totally serviceable, but it looks so janky when the demonstrators are relying on navigation options other than the controller.

$499 is definitely way too high for me to be remotely interested right now, after what I've been seeing here
 
It's amazing how the two features I, and most other gamers care about the least (voice commands and kinect stuff), are the two things that seem completely borked. This system is probably totally serviceable, but it looks so janky when the demonstrators are relying on navigation options other than the controller.

$499 is definitely way too high for me to be remotely interested right now, after what I've been seeing here
You remove all this kinect stuff and you would be at $299-$399.
 
Nope that is what they said and what other people reported. It darkens the picture and adds a little processing to it (you can see a little more ringing around logos and stuff because it slightly sharpens the picture) and any 5.1 audio will be downmixed to stereo.

There is a 5.1 audio beta setting which gives you a warning that it will further degrade picture quality.

This HDMI IN is useless. I knew it.

Wow even if it's full screen you lose 5.1? Who in thier right mind would use this?
 
Nilay doesn't like anything if its doesnt have a fruit on the back.

Yea, that must be it. Not the fact the most basic commands can't even be recognized like remote control has done with 100% accuracy for past 50 years.

No, it has to be his love for fruit symbol.

Only logical explanation .
 
Plugging your cable/satellite into the Xbox and having it on even more than usual for a video game system sounds like a disaster in the making, overheating wise, after the problems with it with the 360.

Hopefully MS will prove me wrong.
 
Plugging your cable/satellite into the Xbox and having it on even more than usual for a video game system sounds like a disaster in the making, overheating wise, after the problems with it with the 360.

Hopefully MS will prove me wrong.

This is exactly what I am thinking. Do I really want my game system on that much?
 
How the hell did they manage to degrade the sound and picture quality with the HDMI in?

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Ahh Polygon is back. Zoo Tycoon.
 
"We couldn't get all the characters to unlock..."

JAGO vs JAGO mirror match all the time




This Nilay guy isnt afraid to go after them with tough questions. Love it.
His exasperation at their HDMI-in "solution" is hilarious to watch. It's great that they are repeating these earlier recorded interviews

DON'T YOU KNOW GOOGLE TV TRIED THIS? WHERE IS GOOGLE TV NOW
 
How the hell did they manage to degrade the sound and picture quality with the HDMI in?

The sound one is a pretty big mistake and inexcusable. The picture thing is normal and expected actually. They put their UI overlay over the picture. This is not possible without processing the picture and that will always change some aspects of the picture. In this case sharpen and darken the image.

If it would just work like a HDMI splitter or HDMI receiver put in direct passthrough mode, it would not touch the picture at all. But that is not how Xbox One works.
 
How the hell did they manage to degrade the sound and picture quality with the HDMI in?

they have to decode it and mix in the xbox audio/video

I find it hard to believe that they really downgrade the quality a noticable amount (with the beta setting on) but we'll see on Friday. Will just not use the feature if it does; no loss from what I've seen but it would've been nice to get notifications while watching tv
 
Wow this is like the old 1up stuff but complete shit, I didnt know that site was full of these people. Real turn off to the entire site. Cant wait till Geese gets on and his mopey lame self just shits on everything.
 
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